In pictures: Our picture editor selects the best images from around the globe, May 15

OUR daily picture editor's gallery shows off some of the most spectacular images taken by the world's top photographers.

IN today's gallery, is a view of Johnson South Reef, known to China as Chigua Reef.

The Philippine foreign ministry on Wednesday accused China of reclaiming land on the disputed reef in the South China Sea and said it appeared to be building an airstrip.

Meanwhile, Kirby Chambliss of the U.S. flies in formation with Matt Hall of Australia, Yoshihide Muroya of Japan and Nigel Lamb of Britain prior to the third stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in front of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.

And finally, an emergency vehicle makes is way past a rising moon as it travels along a burned-out hillside near San Marcos, California.

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